“There’s one thing about being a worrier, you’re prepared to go to mind-torturing lengths to worry today today on the off-chance it will avoid an even worse worry tomorrow. The alternative would be not to fret today as the catastrophe is unlikely to happen tomorrow.”
Source: A Horse in the Bathroom: How An Old Stable Became Our Dream Village Home
“Sometimes, stress can be useful and inspire us to tackle challenges. But stress can also feel overwhelming, making us constantly worry about how things will turn out.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
“When stress feels overwhelming, it's important to find support and to take care of yourself while getting your stress level back to a manageable level.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
“Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry.”
Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
“Sea World orcas work as many as eight shows a day, 365 days a year. In the ocean, these whales can swim up to ninety miles a day. In captivity, the tanks are measured in feet. In the ocean, orcas have highly evolved and cohesive matriarchal cultures. Generations of family members, combining both females and males, spend their entire lives together—with each family, or pod, communicating its own unique dialect. In captivity, little to none of this exists. Orca culture is effectively destroyed.”
Source: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
“The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to his teachers.”
“Tussen opa's laatste woorden en zijn eerste had hij maar één regel opengelaten. '...heb jij dat ook: om drie, vier uur 's nachts wakker worden en alle, alle zorgen van jezelf en iedereen op je borst voelen drukken. Of nee, bij mij begint het lager: in de maag. Knagend gevoel, wat is het, onbehagen over hoe 't met ons gaat, of angst over hoe 't met ons zal aflopen. De kleinste muizenissen opgeblazen tot wereldrampen.”
Source: Bougainville
“You'd think with all that time on my hands, I'd spend some of it thinking about Melly and Rusty. You'd assume I'd take some time to process everything that happened with James But it was like a brick wall went up, and every time I tried to bring forward the chaos of the previous week, some protective instinct would kick in and I'd literally fall asleep.”
Source: The Honey-Don't List
“She never knew how
Hard it could truly get until
She was drowning, just
Beneath the surface,
Unable to catch even a
Breath of air as she
Strangled herself, encumbering
Herself with
Meaningless tasks and studies, burdening
Herself with
Meaningless thoughts and duties,
No matter how much her heart
Willed her to rest,
Her brain told her to
Keep going, and, inevitably,
She broke”
“Healthy, well-balanced people tend to have uncomplicated faces. Faces only become complicated after years of layering from mental and emotional stress.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction